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lostcompass2021-05-09 03:46 pm
groundrules) wrote in lostcompass2021-05-09 03:46 pm
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intro & cr meme - the magnificent may edition
Welcome to May, beautiful people! Applications are still open until 23:59 GMT tonight, unless you’ve pinged about needing a deadline extension, but there’s already some fresh blood to say hi to, and you can seldom go wrong with a bit of CR mingling.
Players of new characters: please nudge if you've been shoved onto the Taken List, and you have no character tag in eastbound & westwhere yet!
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ARE YOU OPEN TO PLURK/DISCORD FRIENDING FOR RP: Absolutely! That's what it's there for.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: A very nice and sane person. Photographer and artist, has birds, excellent at being coherent.
YOUR LATEST SHOWER EPIPHANY THE WORLD MUST KNOW: Oh man I can't remember... now I want to take a shower and see if I can come back with something profound. I'll get back to you.
CHARACTER: Number Five Hargreeves
CANON: The Umbrella Academy
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: (c/p from the last one, did I mention I'm lazy??) He's fun! Guy with the power to manipulate space and time, who got trapped in a post-apocalyptic world for 45 years the first time he tried to time travel (he's 58 btw). Then he got picked up by the Commission (basically the time police) and worked as an assassin before he figured out how to go back to stop the apocalypse and broke his contract. But he screwed it up and reverted back to his 13 year old body. That old story.
Still a semi-crazy and sassy little SOB who teleports everywhere. Zero problems with murder or telling you how much better he is than you. You definitely want him on your team.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Your character has been patiently queuing for the past hour, when someone with no extenuating circumstances cuts in. How do they react?
Are we pretending that isn't Five in this scenario? (Who has an hour!) He would teleport right in front of them, and if that doesn't spook them enough to back off he'd be happy to either a) ignore their existence or b) be condescending as all hell to explain how his time is more valuable than their life, and they're free to test that out. It depends on the day he's had.
ii. What job would your character most majestically fail at?
Excuse you he is a genius who can do anything. Except probably anything that involves talking to people... or relating to them... Can you imagine him being a psychologist? Or a doctor? Or a customer service rep?? And you definitely won't catch him mowing lawns or selling lemonade. These are all moot points because he looks 13 and child labor laws obviously exist here when he wants them to.
iii. What scent do you associate with your character?
Coffee.
WHAT’S YOUR CHARACTER BEEN UP TO, SO FAR?
Remember that time he talked some of you into helping him rob that bank? That was a whole thing. Remember how he didn't tell you how much he actually took and gave you all like 1K (and a few useless magic items) while he hid the rest because he didn't trust you not to blow it all? That definitely happened. Five amazingly tried teamwork a couple of times, it was wild.
He also briefly jumped on that crazy ship to get to his sister, but otherwise did not help anyone. At this point he's seen that most of you are actually pretty capable, so you obviously had it covered. (This is a compliment. Actually doesn't mind 2.5 of you!)
Aside from that he hasn't gone out much. Five spends most of his spare time trying to unravel what brought them here so he can undo it in case whatever-portals don't work, and taking notes on everyone around him while trying to get leads on his siblings. (Obviously there are people who know more and just aren't telling him. The most frustrated old-man-boy you'll ever meet.) Also still trying to fix that stupid broken briefcase. Your basic control freak stuff.
WHAT ARE YOU ITCHING TO HAVE YOUR CHARACTER DO IN SA-HARETH NEXT?
He needs to pull a Reggie and send everyone an invitation to meet him in some secure location so he can explain the situation to them. Knows you all have been talking about doing this. Or alternatively just talk over anyone who organizes a meeting before he gets to it. (Also probably stalking whoever talks to his sister. Sorry, Vanya.)
Vague plans! I'm open to anything. And if we talked about doing something you want to backtag or that I dropped the ball on, it's never too late.
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...no, I think I can imagine how much blow this would go down in.
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He's so excited to meet your perfectly well behaved son.
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His son is great, he is nothing like Five, he is the best spoiled, sheltered and vaguely sugar-prone son.
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Good thing Five has no grudges whatsoever and no reason not to offer him candy.
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bless that they both put most the money from their efforts away, WHERE'S THE MERCHANT ASKING FOR IT HE'S LIKE THE F
technically i think they have the amount at minimum that is being "asked" between those funds but wei wuxian over here is plotting out how to make more because it's only a problem having too little when you also have zero connections of your own or resources of your own and thus zero pseudo-safe havens or HORRIBLE UNDEAD ENERGY FILLED AREAS PEOPLE AVOID to go hide out in, really unfortunate, this world situation of theirs
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Wei Wuxian is on the 'capable' list though, for the mermaids and the adorable paperman trick, and someday we should actually have a thread. They can talk about money and how to get back their control of this runaway crazy train. I'm really determined about this.
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Let's get a thread, let's do it this farm adventure! I'm seeking a few answers from the marvelous ruximus maximus, but the biggest fear Wuxian has is about to manifest between the wolves and the dog staying on farm with them: and I do mean the turns and runs and screams unless he hit the point of too scared to properly make noises anymore, as you do
But past that he even has experience with farming turnips (sobs) and wants to work on making talismans out of the books with pages he can repurpose in the library that Vanya doesn't want, for the sake of testing out which ones he might adapt to helping secure their situation better/what might also be marketable for their ragtag team of misfits
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Farm adventure, yes. Five can always teleport him away from the scary wolves if... all else fails. Like. If he runs smack into him he might. Just be prepared to be nauseous because that's a whole thing.
Survival skills are on point with this group at least! Five survived on cockroaches and expired canned food for decades in the apocalypse, so. I mean, that's not exactly farming, and he's not had the healthiest diet, but he has survival down pat. Would rather eat turnips.
He also wants to see those books though. Better tear them out in secret... those pages were always missing, see.
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This is why we never have a shortage of backup plans even if we're literally making it up as the prior plans fail, it's fine, that's still planning right?
Oh no I love it, can he directly run into and cling to one of the shortest people here and then be grateful because the nausea is so much better than the panic/fear was?
Oh good, everyone's ready to survive by less than spiffy means, except for those who aren't. We'll just. We'll help them adjust!
... Mysterious how these record books have all these random torn out pages... very mysterious...
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Payback for his help at the bank! That will square them right away. He's not going to be there every time though, so be more careful about these things.
All of this sounds fine. Between the two of them, everyone will be... saved.
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i shout this so i dont forget but i did set us up a thing there
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